Note: The left-hand side of this panorama shows a church building and a congregation of people that have returned from the destruction caused by Hurricane Ike; the right-hand side view, when compared to gigapan.org/gigapans/31296/ shows that the oak trees that died because of tree-root salt-water saturation have now been removed.

We have seen this congregation of people before in a GigaPan: www.gigapan.org/gigapans/33404/ and we have seen the exterior of their building before (soon after Hurricane Ike destroyed the roof and interior): gigapan.org/gigapans/31296/. Now they finally are able to return and today was the third Sunday service and it was spectacular to be there.

As always, I am uplifted by Allen's thought-provoking sermons (today's topic was Grace, Faith and Works) and again was touched by the church's overwhelming friendliness and acceptance of me, a visitor, into their meeting place and would return more often if it were not for the long distance that separates Galveston from Houston.

Note: This panorama can be seen in Google Earth as a beautiful 360-degree curved panorama on a curved surface by clicking the link, View in Google Earth.

This hand-held panorama was taken with a Nikon D-70 using a Nikkor 28-80 f/3.3-5.6 G lens and was stitched using the GigaPan Stitcher software. Additional information can be seen in Stitcher Notes.

Gigapan Comments
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Thanks ... there was not much patience here on
this Sunday. In the first snapshot, you can see a
young lady who is trying to handle looking into
the sun and there are people standing in the shade
(the dude holding his baby) because on the intense
heat, and for the rest of us; well, anyone wearing
a suit was covered with sweat. I took the Gigapan
in about two minutes, which for most, was about a
minute and a half too much. However, it stitched
as a 360, which is amazing to me. Did you notice
the absence of trees as what we can see in www.gigapan.org/gigapans/31296/
? (numerous trees in this panorama have now been
vaporized). The tall palm trees survived, but the
oak trees didn't